"The Gadfly" - City Journal - January 8, 2022
"A Literary Seance" - Washington Examiner - November 19, 2021
"Burning Boy of Modernism" - Washington Examiner - November 11, 2021
"The Last Honest Pagan" - University Bookman - October 31, 2021
"What Are We Fighting For? - Law & Liberty - August 24, 2021
"Man on Fire" - Washington Examiner - August 5, 2021
"Poetry in a Godless World" - Law & Liberty - July 27, 2021
"Two Types of Dylan Books" - Splice Today - July 16, 2021
"Dispatches from the Deathworks" - Law & Liberty - June 25, 2021
"The Comedy of Manners" - Washington Examiner - June 25, 2021
"Humble Like a Roman Emperor" - Washington Examiner - June 11, 2021
"Who Was Simone Weil?" - Washington Examiner - May 19, 2021
"Heschel's Prophetic Gift to America" - Law & Liberty - May 12, 2021
"Kingsnorth's Green Götterdämmerung" - Church Life Journal - May 5, 2021
"The Best Bob Dylan" - American Conservative - April 22, 2021
"Rubicon" - Plough Quarterly - February 22, 2021
"Got Enlightenment?" - Washington Examiner - February 18, 2021
"To Make is Divine" - Washington Examiner - February 5, 2021
"Simone Weil's Beautiful Shipwreck" - Church Life Journal - February 3, 2021
"Read Another Book" - Law & Liberty - December 30, 2020
"Therapy Notes for a Borderless Culture" - Law & Liberty - December 23, 2020
"Solzhenitsyn and America" - Washington Examiner - December 18, 2020
"Signature Afflictions" - Church Life Journal - December 16, 2020
"Magical Thinking" - Washington Examiner - December 3, 2020
"Un-American review" - Plough Quarterly - November 17, 2020
"Over and Over Again" - Washington Examiner - October 22, 2020
"Who Were the Real Vikings?" - Washington Examiner" - September 25, 2020
"Angels & Fish" - Washington Examiner - September 4, 2020
"The Problem of Force" - The Point - August 7, 2020
"The Mark of a Sacramentalist" - Church Life Journal - August 4, 2020
"Every Profession is a Conspiracy" - The Agonist - July 1, 2020
"Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece" - Washington Examiner - June 19, 2020
"Saving Democracy from Itself" - Law & Liberty - June 19, 2020
"Revaluing the Real" - Law & Liberty - June 3, 2020
"The Simulation of Discontent" - American Conservative - May 23, 2020
"The Progress of the Novel" - Church Life Journal - May 22, 2020
"Man The Hunter" - Washington Examiner - May 14, 2020
"Meatyard the Outsider" - Washington Examiner  - May 8, 2020
"Eliot's Homecoming" - Law & Liberty - May 5, 2020
"Trump's West Point Gambit" - New York Daily News - April 30, 2020
"The American Book of the Dead" - Church Life Journal - April 22, 2020
"Isolating with the Dead" - Washington Examiner - April 17, 2020
"On the Origins of the Specious" - The Agonist Journal - April 16, 2020
"A Place That Almost Happened" - Washington Examiner - April 3, 2020
"Cursed Images" - Splice Today - April 2, 2020
"A Familiar Boredom" - American Conservative - March 26, 2020
"A Homemade World" - Solidarity Hall - March 23, 2020
"Remember, Remember" - The New Criterion - March 21, 2020
"Nothing Comes Easy" - Splice Today - March 20, 2020
"The Africa of the Soul" - Washington Examiner - February 20, 2020
"Seance in a Dead Mall" - American Conservative - February 20, 2020
"The Meaning of War" - Washington Examiner - February 7, 2020
"The Quality of Objects" - University Bookman - January 19, 2020
"American Illusions" - Washington Examiner - January 17, 2020
"A Healthy Sense of Evil" - Law & Liberty - January 10, 2020
"Voices and Spirits" - Splice Today - January 2, 2020
"Kilroy Was Here" - The Agonist - January 1, 2020
"Ghosts Watching Ghosts" - Splice Today - December 20, 2019
"An Education in Virtue" - Washington Examiner - December 13, 2019
"The Consumer's Regress" - Church Life Journal - December 12, 2019
"D.H. Lawrence review" - Washington Examiner - November 30, 2019
"The Cubicle Archipelago" - American Affairs - November 20, 2019
"Venus, Dante, Crow" - War, Literature & the Arts - November 18, 2019
"Byung-Chul Han's Cargo Cult" - Church Life Journal - November 5, 2019
"An Intercourse with Ghosts" - Mere Orthodoxy - October 31, 2019
"Candy Jail" - Daily Caller - October 23, 2019
"The Silence of Cardinal Sarah" - American Conservative - October 15, 2019
"Mercenaries Out of the Gate" - Plough Quarterly - September 26, 2019
"Homesick for Eternity "- University Bookman - September 16, 2019
"Prophets of the Modern" - Modern Age - September 3, 2019
"Declawing Simone Weil" - American Conservative - August 29, 2019
"Our Kinless World" - Church Life Journal - August 16, 2019
"The Kids Are Art Right" - Splice Today - July 22, 2019
"How to Become a Criminal review" - American Conservative - July 16, 2019
"Outside Looking In review" - University Bookman - July 14, 2019
"Basic Bitch Hayek" - The Agonist Journal - July 2, 2019
"The Unnameable Present review" - University Bookman - June 23, 2019
"The Tragedy of Herakles" - American Conservative - June 13, 2019
"Collapse into R.E.M." - Splice Today - May 30, 2019
"War is Boring" - Church Life Journal - May 28, 2019
"Savage Gods review" - American Conservative - May 22, 2019
"Cynthia Haven interview" - Full Stop - May 15, 2019
"Where is Su Tissue?" - The Outline - May 7, 2019
"The Meaning of Martyrdom" - Law & Liberty - May 3, 2019
"The Internet Killed Slacker" - American Conservative - April 26, 2019
"Lasch and the Family" - The Agonist - April 16, 2019
"The OA and the Prison of Self" - American Conservative - April 16, 2019
"Chat with Hugh and Guy" - Claremont Review - April 9, 2019
''Into the Dark Needs More Evil" - American Conservative - March 18, 2019
"Homecoming and the Trauma of War" - Law & Liberty - March 15, 2019
"The Meaning of Meaninglessness" - Public Discourse - March 8th, 2019
"Sleep-Away Prison Camp" - American Conservative - February 14th, 2019
"The Ted Bundy Tapes review" - American Conservative - February 5, 2019
"Lasch and limitlessness" - The Agonist - February 2, 2019
"Simone Weil and Reading" - Church Life Journal - January 21, 2019
"The Proper Procedure review" - University Bookman - January 6, 2019
"The so-called 'radical' University" - Liberty Law - January 3, 2019
"What is power? review" - American Conservative - December 13, 2018
"The Perverted 90's" - American Conservative - December 3, 2018
"The Open Office" - American Affairs - November 20, 2018
"The Biggest Question" - Dublin Review of Books - November 15, 2018
"Lodos Alba" - GCAS Review - November 14, 2018
"'Nostalgia' Review" - American Conservative - November 13, 2018
"Military Solutionism" - The Baffler - November 6, 2018
"The Muteness of Evil" - American Conservative - October 31, 2018
"Weil's Abolition of Parties" - American Conservative - October 25, 2018
"Political Anti-Comedy" - American Conservative - October 16, 2018
"Warriors on Stage" - Plough Quarterly - October 4, 2018
"Slaves of Ourselves" - New English Review - October 1, 2018
"Horror and Eternity" - Modern Age - September 17, 2018
"Vaporwave and Simone Weil's Void" - Church Life Journal - August 30, 2018
"America Shoots Itself" - The Baffler - August 23, 2018
"Slenderman review" - American Conservative - August 17, 2018
"Love in the Void" - American Conservative - August 7, 2018
"Byung-Chul Han and Our Frayed Society" - Law & Liberty - June 12, 2018
"The Pornification of Everything" - American Conservative - June 7, 2018
"Shopping for the Sublime" - American Affairs - May 20, 2018
"Conspiracy Theory as Art" - The Smart Set - May 10, 2018
"War Games" - The Baffler - May 1, 2018
"Channel Zero and Folktales" - Law & Liberty - April 30, 2018
"Radical Sacrifice review" - Claremont Review of Books - March 28, 2018
"Stephen Hawking: Messenger" - American Conservative - March 16, 2018
"A Stone Wall in a Concrete World" - Public Discourse - March 15, 2018
"The Age of Secularization review" - University Bookman - March 11, 2018
"Black Mirror and Fake Heavens" - American Conservative - February 21, 2018
"Permanent State review" - Law & Liberty - February 19, 2018
"Saint in the City review" - American Conservative - February 13, 2018
"The Tears of Achilles review" - The New Criterion - January 26, 2018
"The Expanding Blaze review" - University Bookman - December 17, 2017
"Fictionalizing Anthropology review" - Full Stop - December 12, 2017
"Abe in Poe's Balloon" - Lit Hub - December 11, 2017
"Algorithms / Mindless Mind" - American Conservative - November 22, 2017
"Pound in the Bughouse review" - American Conservative - October 25, 2017
"Literature Class review" - University Bookman - October 22, 2017
"Who Goes Nazi Now?" - American Conservative - October 11, 2017
"Korea and Undeclared Wars" - Timeline - September 23, 2017
"A Parliament of Poets" - The New Criterion - September 20, 2017
"Our Zombie Doctrine" - Timeline - September 19, 2017
"The Detached Lit of our Remote Wars" - American Affairs - August 20, 2017
"Beast review" - The Atlantic - August 14, 2017
"1967 and the Militarization of the Police" - Timeline - August 9, 2017
"Dead Time" - Hazlitt - August 1, 2017
"Our Dead World review" - Full Stop - August 1, 2017
"At Home in Exile" - Dublin Review of Books - July 11, 2017
"War Machine review" - American Conservative - July 3, 2017
"Coleridge's visions in verse" - The New Criterion - June 15, 2017
"Long, Strange, Trip review" - American Conservative - June 14, 2017
"Typewriter, Bombs, Jellyfish review" - American Conservative - June 4, 2017
"David Jones review" - American Conservative - May 26, 2017
"Grateful Dead, May 1977" - Timeline - May 24, 2017
"Too Woke To Think" - American Conservative - May 17, 2017
"Coleridge's Conservative Imagination" - University Bookman - May 5, 2017
"Conservatism in Translation" - Public Discourse - April 28, 2017
"Developing World As A Weapons Lab" - Timeline - April 25, 2017
"Bombing Doesn't Work" - Timeline - April 23, 2017
"Gaddis and the Player Piano" - Full Stop - April 19, 2017
"Attention Online Shoppers..." - The Brooklyn Rail - April 1, 2017
"New Drone, Same as the Old Drone" - The Baffler - March 31, 2017
"Torture & Fake News" - Informed Comment - March 20, 2017
"Sun Kil Moon & Tradition" - American Conservative - March 16, 2017
"Why are Women in Combat?" - American Conservative - February 23, 2017
"Drone Warriors" - American Conservative - February 17, 2017
"The Kid's Aren't Alright" - The Public Discourse - February 16, 2017
"Adulting" - The Baffler - February 14, 2017
"The Banality of Microdosing" - The Baffler - February 9, 2017
"Iraqi Interpreters" - The Village Voice - January 31, 2017
"The Horror of Slenderman" - American Conservative - January 27, 2017
"Riffing on the Star-Spangled Banner" - Timeline - January 2, 2017
"The American Essayist" - American Conservative - December 16, 2016
'"Parallel Societies" - The Public Discourse - December 8, 2016
"Review of Motherland Hotel" - Full Stop - December 7, 2016
"Living By War" - American Conservative - November 10, 2016
"The Drone Age" - The Village Voice - October 26, 2016
"Pentagon Too Big To Audit?" - New York Magazine - October 19, 2016
"Bob Dylan, Troubadour" - American Conservative - October 18, 2016
"Reality TV of War" - American Conservative - September 30, 2016
"Edward Snowden, Everyman?" - American Conservative - September 23, 2016
"Our New War Machines" - The Baffler - September 12, 2016
"Reflections on the Ground Zero Mall" - Rolling Stone - September 9, 2016
"What Has Clinton Learned from Iraq?" - The Atlantic - September 8, 2016
Interview with Odie Lindsey - Full Stop - September 7, 2016
"What Happened To Vaporwave?" - Esquire - August 18, 2016
"The Best Iraq War Story is a Comic Book" - Vulture - August 4, 2016
"Acedia, The Gloomy Evil of our Age" - Patheos - July 26, 2016
"Dearer To The Vultures" - The Paris Review - June 2, 2016
"Automating the Eschaton" - Patheos - May 17, 2016
"Top Gun At Thirty" - Timeline - May 12, 2016
"Review of HBO Doc Only The Dead" - New York Magazine - May 5, 2016
"Joseph DeLappe's Video Games" - Pacific Standard - May 4, 2016
"Ernesto Cardenal & Eliot's Two Finers" - Patheos - April 27, 2016
"Just War Theory Is Changing" - Timeline - April 21, 2016
"Agent Orange Amnesia" - Task & Purpose - April 13, 2016
"Interview with Julie Snyder" - Vulture - April 11, 2016
"The Original Panama Papers" - Timeline - April 8, 2016
"Sexual Humiliation and the CIA" - Timeline - April 7, 2016
"Sexual Harassment Literally a Game" - Task & Purpose - April 5, 2016
"Punisher and Veterans" - Vulture - March 23, 2016
"Knights of the Sky" - Timeline - March 23, 2016
"Burn Your Draft Cards, Women" - Task & Purpose - March 23, 2016
"The Grateful Dead" - Ethika Politika - March 18, 2016
"The Rust Belt Knows" - Belt Magazine - March 17, 2016
"Burn Pits" - Task & Purpose - March 15, 2016
"War Hair" - Timeline - March 8, 2016
"Not Only Veterans" - Task & Purpose - March 7, 2016
"Cover Your Ass Culture" - Timeline - March 4, 2016
"Troops Against Trump" - The Guardian - February 29, 2016
"An Infantryman's Defense of the A-10" - Task & Purpose - February 29, 2016
"The Cost of the Kill Box" - The Atlantic - February 28, 2016
"The DoD Becomes Family-Friendly" - Task & Purpose - February 19, 2016 
"When Is America At War?" - Al Jazeera - February 14, 2016
"Misplaced Faith in Bombing" - The Atlantic - January 30, 2016
"Can Drone Pilots Be Heroes?" - The Atlantic - January 23, 2016
"A Nuke Attack Has Never Been More Likely" - The Week- January 13, 2016
"Military Vs. Private Sector" - The Atlantic - December 29, 2015
"The Internet Is The Grateful Dead" - Pacific Standard - December 28, 2015
"A More Inclusive Military" - The Guardian - December 28, 2015
"Bowe Bergdahl, American Scapegoat" - Al Jazeera - December 20, 2015
"Ignoring Guantanamo" - The Atlantic - December 17, 2015
"'Serial' Season 2 Recaps" - New York Magazine - December 16, 2015
"Sander's National Defense Evasions" - The Week - December 10, 2015
"ISIL's War on the Imagination" - Al Jazeera - December 6, 2015
"Ulysses in Hell" - Ethika Politika - December 2, 2015
"Boots On The Ground" - The Guardian - November 13, 2015
"Kilroy Is Still Here" - The Paris Review - November 12, 2015
"Sports are Not War" - Al Jazeera - November 8, 2015
"Artificially Intelligent Politicians" - Pacific Standard - October 30, 2015
"The American Injustice System" - Bookforum - September 30, 2015
"Military Isn't The Private Sector " - The Atlantic - September 28, 2015
"A Short Way To Hell" - Belt Magazine - September 23, 2015
"Women In The Military Not Social Experiment" - Al Jazeera - August 26 ,2015
"The Populism of Hillary Clinton" - The Atlantic - August 10, 2015
"Obama's Nuclear Betrayal" - Al Jazeera - August 8, 2015
"Trillion Dollar Boondoggle" - Al Jazeera - July 20, 2015
"In Review: A Planet For Rent" - Asymptote Journal - July 9, 2015
"The Conservative Case Against The Suburbs" - TPMCafe - July 7, 2015
"Blowing The Whistle" - Al Jazeera - July 4, 2015
"Bending Towards Real Justice" - The Baffler - July 2, 2015
"The Executioner's Wrong" - Ethika Politika - June 30, 2015
"It Sounds Like A Melody" - The Baffler - June 25, 2015
"Red Flags Over Green Berets" - Al Jazeera - June 11, 2015
"The Kurds Are Alright" - The Baffler - June 4, 2015
"It's Always Mourning In America" - The Baffler - May 28, 2015
"The Tales We Tell" - Al Jazeera - May 25, 2015
"The Corpse Singing On The Radio" - Full Stop - May 20, 2015
"A Giant, Fake City" - The Atlantic - May 19, 2015
"Special Effects" - The Paris Review - May 12, 2015
"The Age of Ratings" - Humane Pursuits - May 12, 2015
"Knows A Little of What's Going On" - The Baffler - May 07, 2015
"The Mall of American Progress" - The Baffler - April 23, 2015
"The Most Contaminated Place in the World" - The Baffler - April 16, 2015
"Absent Reason" - The Baffler - April 2, 2015 
"The Path To Closure" - Mic.com - March 25, 2015
"David Petraeus Does D.C." - The Baffler - March 19, 2015
"The Iran Letter: Explaining The Joke" - The Baffler - March 12, 2015
"For Love of Country (And Money)" - The Baffler - March 5, 2015
"The NRA's Stranglehold" - Al Jazeera - March 5, 2015
"Bad Faith And Bull From ACA Critics" - The Baffler -February 27, 2015
"How to Send a Message" - The Atlantic - February 24, 2015
"Guns, Money, and Ukraine" - The Baffler - February 19, 2015
"Obama in the Land of the Blind" - The Baffler - February 12, 2015
"American Sniper" - Mic.com - January 23, 2015
"Abolish West Point" - The Washington Post - January 23, 2015
"The Bipartisan War Consensus" - Al Jazeera - January 2, 2015
"If You Get Confused" - Pacific Standard - December 16, 2014
"Military Hi-Tech Leads To Big Graft" - Al Jazeera - November 14, 2014

"America Doesn't Need To Lead" - The Atlantic - November 14, 2014
"Buying Out Your Boss" - Pacific Standard - November 12, 2014
"The Solipsist State" - Bookforum - Fall Issue
"The Mystery of the Veiled Prophet" - The Atlantic - September 2, 2014
"120 American Charter Schools" - The Atlantic - August 12, 2014
"Mediocrity Finds A Way" - Full Stop - March 6, 2014
"Under This Terrible Sun" - Full Stop - September 3, 2013
"Kim Stanley Robinson" - The Atlantic - April 1, 2013
"Ian M. Banks" - The Atlantic - January 16, 2013